Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2, sentence 81

The old man who was driving the oxen told them that in the lifetime of his father the horses had many a hard battle with the wild beasts that were now exterminated.

Who acts: old man, horses · What happens: drive, tell, have, exterminate · To what, where: oxen, many, lifetime, wild beasts · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story From the Sand-hills, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, horses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 driving	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 driving	aux
6	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 man	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 oxen	det
8	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 driving	obj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 had	mark
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 lifetime	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lifetime	det
14	lifetime	lifetime	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 father	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lifetime	nmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 horses	det
19	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	ccomp
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 had	obj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 battle	det
23	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 battle	amod
24	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 beasts	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 beasts	det
27	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 beasts	amod
28	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 battle	nmod
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 exterminated	obj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 exterminated	aux:pass
31	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 exterminated	advmod
32	exterminated	exterminate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 beasts	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	drive	past · progressive	the old man	the oxen				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the old man		oxen = ox			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	have	past	the horses	many		the lifetime of man's father		tree rules
4	exterminate	past · passive		the wild beasts			now	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: that=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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